Found something: Interview with Oleg

[Waaagh]

Hey again

So I´ve not posted a -whole- lot, but I´ve lurked around daily.

But now I´ve stumbled about something interesting over at Rockpapershotgun, which I´d like to share (and which I hope is okay to be plugged here.)

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1421

Granted, it´s from before Pacific Fighters was released, but I think it positively shows the dedication Oleg and team put into their work. And, since I´ve also played Stalker, I´ve found that things coming from Russia can even be great if they come out a little late.

I´m willing to wait another 7 years for this game, same as I waited for Stalker. I´m not qualified to say anything, though, since I post so little, but there, I´ve said it anyway.

Cheers

Waaagh

[bomath]

Originally Posted by Oleg_Interview

“Of course, that isn’t possible. Some will like a combat game. Some people like a clean flight sim. One will like all features from an aircraft to be featured. One will prefer to go through the entire aircraft check-list before he can fly… and that’s one thing that a real pilot /hates/. He likes to /fly/ only. But some people think realism is getting all the features working. Some flight sims in the past were so hard to fly that – me myself, a real pilot, and my friends, also real pilots – said that we’d never fly a real aircraft if they were anything at all like sims”

It's strange, but that's exactly how I feel. Even in a commercial (passenger) jet the checklist and flight management/surveillance/check-up is waaaay easier (and with a lot more feedback) than the CEM in IL-2.
I wonder if SoW will be as full of CEM tricky things as the current IL-2.

[Vigilant]

Flight simmers are very lucky to have a guy like this at the forefront of this genre...

[Avimimus]

Yes, definitely. Everywhere I go I hear good things about Oleg.

P.S.
Another interesting game from Russia is a plague sim called "Pathologic", it can still be found second hand.

There is also a freeware space game called "Babylon Five: I've found her", which was headed by another Oleg and also tries to be very realistic.

[Tribunus]

We are all very lucky to have Oleg at the helm.
Think about all the free content that we have gotten over the years in aircraft, ground objects, maps and missions.

The IL2 series is still capable of new surprises even after all these years. So as far as BOB, I’ll second Waaagh.
I’ll wait 7 years, if Oleg feels it’s necessary to get it right.

[Oktoberfest]

Well, now I know why the spit is so ueber...Because he says he just know HALF of its manual and not all the manual like in the 109 or 190....

OK, I stop, this was an easy attack